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...ideologues, one who was willing to "downsize government, [but] not devastate it," as he said in May 1995. When Buchanan started peeling the paint off the walls with his talk of America's greedy corporations, Dole was suddenly George Meany, denouncing corporate layoffs. Soon his campaign was a battleground state all its own, in which Dole and his advisers and just about everybody else argued not just about how to reinvent Bob Dole but whether...
...National Journal called Boehlert the Green Hornet for his efforts to make government care about the environment, sometimes contrary to the G.O.P. agenda. But the battleground in this race may be the economy. The 23rd District lost 1,400 jobs when Griffiss Air Force Base was scaled back in 1993, and Boehlert is pushing to make the Rome Laboratory a National Law Enforcement Technology Center...
...were a country, it would be the seventh largest in the world. One in eight U.S. residents, and one in eight members of Congress, is a Californian. Though it may have a reputation for being liberal and laid-back, the state--with a Republican governor--remains a battleground on issues from abortion to welfare...
...spent the last two days canvassing the South, an area that has been solidly Republican but where Clinton is leading in many states. The Dole campaign, which worries that Perot will split the anti-Clinton vote, felt Perot's withdrawal could tip the scales their way in key battleground states such as Texas and Florida. But polls show Perot supporters back Clinton in similar proportions to the general electorate. -- Josh Dubow
...introduction of new technology in the communications and information sector, Big Business is now subjected to corporate warfare. Your cover picture of Bill Gates surrounded by the Web displays this perfectly. Microsoft, the biggest soldier in this war, has proved itself many times on the computer-technology battleground. Now Microsoft finds itself fighting on a new front, which is what millions of Americans know today as the Net. Gates' enemy is Netscape...